There are a lot of laughs here, and the alternate universe characters make for a nice touch, but the plot feels as though the writers decided to explain everything away with a cheap handwave, and the Dungeons and Dragons subplot comes out of nowhere and seems to be entirely tacked on. There are some good points, sure, but a lot to frustrate you too.

Overlong, but fairly entertaining this time around. Still, the humor has gotten really cheap and obvious. I remember when this show was riffing on Heisenberg and P = NP, but now we get Nurse Ratchet (thud) and the world's 800th "Yellow Submarine" parody (hell even Wawa's parody was better!). This is all fair game for the likes of Friedberg and Seltzer, but you have to demand better from this crew.

Futurama takes a shot at some fantasy/Dungeons & Dragons parody, mostly finding the funny even if a lot of this material isn't as fresh as it could have been.

Better than no new futurama, but a definite step down from the show itself.

They get points for keeping all the characters involved in the same plotline this time, but hasn't Lord of the Rings been done enough.

The worst Futurama has ever been but still not bad.

Not great. There, I said it. Futurama should've stayed dead.

Not exactly the show's best work - it's largely a rehash of previous great moments, and then a contrived justification of their fantasy parody - but it's still Futurama, and it's still pretty enjoyable.

Futurama's strengths (visual gags and sex jokes) are as good as they've ever been, but some of its weaknesses (does Tolkien really need lampooning anymore?) are still present. Thankfully, the show's unfortunate tendency to take itself seriously (remember "The Sting"?) is diminished as well.

The worst of the Futurama movies.

Weaker than the previous two, and most of the D&D jokes went zooming over my head, but it's still good for a laugh. The animation is really getting quite beautiful.

Now I have something to point to when someone asks me, "So, why do you think Futurama can implode?" Stale pop culture jabs, and a plot that feeds the jokes instead of the other way around.